Re: iTunes Radio Tuner

FROM : Yaw Anokwa
DATE : Wed Apr 27 07:57:10 2005

On Apr 25, 2005, at 23:50, Max Gebhardt wrote:

> I think 3Com and/or Apple may have some issues with other software 
> using this service.  iTunes' SLA states that "you may not ... send 
> automated queries to Kerbango's system without express permission 
> from 3Com".  Just something to keep in mind.


It would seem that Apple (understandably) doesn't want developers 
parsing their radio station data.


> In addition to the options already mentioned, AppleScript may be 
> able to help here by grabbing the data from iTunes.  One problem 
> with this method is that, to my knowledge, a script is only capable 
> of grabbing stations that the user has already loaded (by clicking 
> on the disclosure triangles).


Additionally, the drive behind my app is to avoid launching iTunes, 
so this would not work either.

Thanks for all the help. I think I'm going to focus on getting seeing 
what I can pull from Shoutcast.

Yaw